Slavish is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLAVISH in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• pertaining to a slave
• servile or submissive
• showing no attempt at originality
• of or like a slave
• Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great.
• blindly imitative
• abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• pertaining to or characteristic of a slave

Words related to SLAVISH

slavishly18 slavishness17

Words that contain SLAVISH

slavishly18 slavishness17 slavishnesses19

How to use SLAVISH in a sentence

• Slavish, base, and stupid, they were not fit yet for Moses and his deliverance.
• But an attention fixed on the main theme or various matter of the book would deliver us from that slavish subjection to our own self-importance.
• If I encountered him, what chance had I of victory? If I were defeated, what was the penalty I had to suffer? Well then, the rest of my life must be devoted to slavish subjection.
• Like all thorough cowards, you are equally slavish and treacherous.
• Their children are taught to obey promptly and cheerfully, but they have no slavish fear of their parents.
• It was his very zeal that was his danger, although it brought him slavish followers.
• Oh, better to be dead With a face turned to the sky, Than live beneath a slavish dread And serve a giant lie.
• He was a rather slavish fellow, and thought he was going to lose his situation.
• They have of all Indians been the most slavish imitators of the West, as represented, at any rate, by the Irish Fenian and the Russian anarchist.
• And they show, too, how far the ancient architects were from any slavish bondage to those minute rules which moderns have invented for them.
• Hence the legal regulations and the corresponding slavish devotion come to have such immense scope in Catholicism, and well-nigh express its essence.
• No such slavish fidelity do we observe towards any one bed of the numerous beds in our mansion.
• So monstrous were the inconsistencies which arose from the furious passions of the king and the slavish submission of his parliaments.
• Evil to them seems less a terrible than a slavish thing.
• It is a slavish spirit, full of slavish ambitions and slavish abject methods.
• And, with slavish submission, she was prepared to accept his words rather than banish herself out of his presence altogether.
• Furthermore, the constant learning by heart infallibly leads to slavish repetition and mental servility.
• After a few days of this slavish devotion of his, she seemed less aloof, not quite so much the unattainable goddess.
• The landlord waited upon us himself, and could speak German and Italian as well as his own Croatian or Slavish dialect.
• Yet the most slavish drudge in the Edison laboratories and factories is Edison himself.
• There is, we must yield, something Promethean, of new and true beauty, in the bold path of harmonies that the French are teaching us after a long age of slavish rules.
• Not to be angry on the proper provocation, is folly, insensibility, slavish submission.
• Insolent to rudeness with every one who is not in power, he is mean and slavish before rank or a full purse.
• The spirits dominant in the villa were respectable economy and slavish imitation of the tastes and habits of Parisian friends.
• This is the case even when the stimulus is a contagious influence or habit, though the response may then be slavish and the representation vague.
• But it is meet that Greeks should rule over barbarians, O mother, but not barbarians over Greeks, for the one is slavish, but the others are free.
• There were others whose dignity became a slavish occupation to sustain.
• The imagination whose pictures they drew will quench all her lustre for the deserters that devote themselves to the slavish passions of the hour.
• We set the table for two hundred, and do a thousand miserable slavish tasks that must be begun again the following day.
• As for my part, I have not had it so slavish as many, but I have never had any privileges to learn to read, or to go about anywhere.
• This is why not slavish imitation, but intelligent adaptation should be applied to the playing of the teacher in the class-room or the artist on the concert-stage.
• The most slavish obedience to esthetic demands cannot make a tiresome plot interesting and a trivial action significant.

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